Readiness

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Research by Dr. K. Purdam and colleagues from Social Statistics has highlighted the substantial differences in school readiness at the individual, school and local area levels in England. The work is published in the journal Child Indicators Research. While increasing the levels of school readiness is a key target in the UK government's…

Children in Nigeria who watched the educational TV show "Akili and Me" test their alphabet-recognition skills with UMD researchers, who found that regular watching boosted learning in literacy, shape and color recognition, and more. Credit: Ubongo A University of Maryland study upended by the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria made an unexpected discovery: Preschool children who regularly watched educational television programming…

President Bola Tinubu has assured the business community of his government’s commitment to policy consistency and a better business climate to attract investment. The president spoke Monday while receiving the delegation of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) led by the Global Upstream Director, Zoe Yujnovic, at the State House, Abuja. President Tinubu welcomed the SPDC’s offer for more investments in the Nigerian oil and gas sector, adding that such investments are needed now more than ever to enable…

The EU commissioner in charge of enforcing Europe's new landmark rules on online content is heading to San Francisco on Thursday to ensure that the big platforms are ready.The two-day visit by Thierry Breton comes just weeks before the European Union's Digital Service Act (DSA) comes into full force for the world's biggest platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta, as well as TikTok and Twitter.Breton will meet with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk, who took over the highly…

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel dropped a bombshell yesterday by urging the space agency to set up an independent review of Boeing’s Starliner program—a mere 57 days before NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmoreare scheduled to ride aboard the spacecraft on a vital demonstration mission to the ISS.Taking out the Trash (in Space)The CFT mission—the first crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner CST-100 reusable spacecraft—is currently scheduled for July 21, but that doesn’t mean the capsule is fit…

Math exercise for shells can be downloaded at https://www.manilsuri.com/assets/shell_patterns.pptx. Manil Suri, Author provided When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in April 1986, one of the problems he cited was that too few students were devoted to the study of math. "Despite the…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has nabbed the attention of corporate boardrooms for its humanlike ability to generate business reports, marketing pitches and code for software applications, among other things. Yet some business-technology professionals are uneasy about integrating it into the enterprise stack, citing concerns over its use of online data and security risks.…

Too Long; Didn't ReadChatGPT is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) language model developed by OpenAI. It is designed to generate human-like text in a conversational setting. Despite the hype surrounding ChatGPT, it is important to recognize that it is just a narrow AI tool with limited capabilities. Too Long; Didn't ReadChatGPT is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) language model developed by OpenAI. It is designed to generate human-like text in a conversational setting.…

Faridabad (Haryana) : The first day of the international meet on preparedness for future epidemics saw academicians, industrialists and policy makers deliberating on synergistic collaborations between…

A data readiness-based approach to addressing data qualityPhoto by Michael Dziedzic on UnsplashTL;DR: Data quality should be viewed through its readiness for specific consumption use cases. A data readiness approach is proposed to establish specific data consumption context through a specific use case to improve the data quality. Data readiness for a specific use case can be tested just like how software use case gets tested using various test-case scenarios. Similar to data dictionaries, a data readiness artifact must…